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tim_s 42

I have the Antec Twelve Hundred and the Dark Fleet 85 which both can cover your needs - You can just not power the front fans and thus the LEDs will not show or you can remove the LEDs to maintain the fans (noting this cannot be reversed easily.)

P.s. I like your choices the Lian Li series are simple / clean looking.

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AndyD 19

Thanks guys...that Fractal case may be the winner though I do prefer aluminum cases...

tim_s - Yeah I really like Lian Lis clean looks and it fits my living room. I built most of my PCs using their cases till I got a Corsair for my main desktop recently

Luc2k - definitely will further read into this one

Arkos - yeah. Originally I was going to have a separate server and htpc. I ended up combining because I figured that the server would always be on whenever my HTPC was as well so why not consolidate. So far so good. I'm using Win 8 (used to be WHS 2011) + Drive Bender (still on the fence about using some form of RAID). I do have two rooms where I could separate the two and not be it an issue with space but for now not sure I want to go down that route

TPreston - I wish I could have a closet where I could build out a rack. Maybe one day when I own a house :)

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AndyD 19

Thanks guys for the suggestions! Will be reading about the A76 and Silverstone along with Fractal. They all seem to be great options though I like the additional cooling that Silverstone has for the drives (heatsinks). I'll look into Caselabs as well

Teebor - thermaltake / Antec usually have cases that have more styling than I would want for a living room. I like a clean look with minimal lights. I plan to tape up any bright LEDs if necessary

sc302 - I wish I had space for a rack. Well, technically I do but it'll be harder for me to get that set up without having proper cooling and longer cable runs